Volume 35, Number 20 · December 22, 1988

Another Betrayal by Psychiatry?

By I.F. Stone

Seventeen years ago I attacked the World Psychiatric Association in these pages in 'Betrayal by Psychiatry'[1] for refusing to hear complaints from Soviet dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov, about the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. The WPA staged a repeat performance a few weeks ago at a regional meeting here in Washington.



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